A trust-service provider granted qualified status by its supervisory body.
A qualified trust service provider supplies one or more qualified trust services and has been granted that status by the supervisory body. A qualified seal from such a provider can be one way to verify a legal person for registry access; it is not a purchase requirement for every passport registrant.
A qualified trust service provider is a provider granted qualified status for one or more specified trust services by the supervisory body.
“Qualified” describes regulated status, not any self-described identity service.
eIDAS Article 3(20) defines qualified provider status; check the specific qualified service as well as the provider.
eIDAS
‘qualified trust service provider’ means a trust service provider who provides one or more qualified trust services and is granted the qualified status by the supervisory body;
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Reference: Article 3(20)
Officially defined in the cited source. The verbatim source passage is shown separately from Minespider’s explanatory text; applicability follows that source.
Check qualified status and the service or certificate actually supplied rather than inferring qualification from a vendor name.
Provider qualification must be checked for the particular service used, rather than inferred from the provider name alone.
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